Intel Core i7-2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

2650 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

4215 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2190 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2104 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

47.87 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

2704 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

923 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

2612 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

903 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2600 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Core i7-2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.